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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 1 min
Battery
Battery is the twin tort with common law assault.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 1 min
Malicious Prosecution
Malicious prosecution applies only to criminal cases—not civil claims.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Abuse of Process
Abuse of process focuses on the wrongful use of process
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Intentional Interference with Contract
The tort of intentional interference with contract is another common business tort
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Conversion, Trover, & Detinue
This article on negligence is part of Vail Law's open-source litigation and legal risk management checklist. Connect with me on LinkedIn....
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Civil Theft
Civil Theft is a statutory remedy available in Colorado (and many other states)
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Defamation vs. Free Speech
Defamatory is defined as a statement that “tends to harm the person’s reputation by lowering the person in the estimation of at least a subs
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Civil Conspiracy
Civil conspiracy is one of the fundamental business torts—and not simply for its sinister moniker.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Aiding and Abetting Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Aiding and abetting the breach of a fiduciary duty is very similar to, but not identical to, the claim of civil conspiracy.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 7, 2020
- 2 min
Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Breach of fiduciary duty is the ‘dark horse’ of business torts.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 7, 2020
- 2 min
Negligent Misrepresentation
Negligent misrepresentation is a business-specific tort that can be extremely useful, as it provides relief where one party has been misled
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
Fraud (Litigation Checklist)
One of the more common business torts is that of fraud, sometimes also called fraudulent misrepresentation
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
Negligence. (A Litigation Checklist Post)
At its core, the concept of negligence is that every person has a duty to act as an objectively “reasonable” person.
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 2, 2020
- 1 min
Promissory Estoppel
Promissory estoppel is a “quasi-contractual cause of action.” Pinnacol Assur. v. Hoff, 375 P.3d 1214, 1220 (Colo. 2016).
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
Unjust Enrichment
Unjust enrichment is a judicially created, equitable cause of action – it is a “contract implied in law.”
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
Appointment of a Receiver
This article is part of Vail Law's open-source Litigation and Legal Risk Management Checklist. Connect with me on LinkedIn. A receiver is...
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Jeff Vail vail-law.com
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
Breach of Contract (Overview)
Contracts are the lifeblood of modern business, and understanding when a contract exists, what obligations each party has under the contract
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